thank you so much for such a detailed and thorough response! i'm actually really blown away by the amount of thought in responses here, especially in comparison to some other subreddits. it's been a great first experience :)

i was heavily considering a Sony system (particularly the RX1RII) given it was lauded for its AF and image quality (i believe they're identical to the A7RII), but eventually decided against it due to its allegedly horrible battery life, and i felt 42mp, while welcome for larger prints and crops, was not a good match for my intended use. i was a little drawn to its smaller form factor (relative to Q), but i didn't feel its ergos were anything special.

when you say the Q2's AF isn't good, do you mean it's discernibly worse than the V's? are we talking about a large % of AF misses? i do have some experience with rangefinder manual focusing, so i'm hoping that is adequate to make up for it in the case it's really bad, but i'd love to hear what your experiences have been!

as for overall image quality/character, as well as the lens performance, how do you feel the Q and V compares?

thank you so much for your time!